All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. | | | | | Olympian, murderer, anxiety sufferer. (Jim Thurston) | | | | | | “All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.”
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| | rantnrave:// When I was searching for my first apartment in BROOKLYN many many years ago, my roommate and I were met at the door of a two-bedroom in WILLIAMSBURG by the youngish owner, who lived across the street. He didn't ask for identification. There was no application. We chatted for maybe 10 minutes, after which he said "You look like good people" and offered us the apartment. His meaning was unmistakable, because he knew almost nothing else about us. He meant we were white. This is the privilege I get to live with every day. I can scream about it and complain about it and join protest rallies about it and write about it and I still get to live with it. OSCAR PISTORIUS is white, male and an extraordinarily gifted athlete -- exactly the kind of good person for whom "long-term imprisonment will not serve justice," in the eyes of SOUTH AFRICAN JUDGE THOKOZILE MATILDA MASIPA. The judge happened to be sentencing PISTORIUS on WEDNESDAY for murdering his girlfriend by shooting her in the head. But never mind, because the former OLYMPIC sprinter "has punished himself and will punish himself for the rest of his life," the way good people everywhere do. PISTORIUS' sentence -- for, reminder, murder -- is six years. If the number six sounds familiar, that's the number of months that white male swimmer BROCK TURNER was sentenced in CALIFORNIA for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. A longer sentence, the judge in his case said, "would have a severe impact on him." That's pretty much the definition of what prison is supposed to do. But not for everybody, apparently. This is the privilege some of us live with every day. This has never been OK, and it still isn't... In other sports crime news, while his rival CRISTIANO RONALDO was sending PORTUGAL to the finals of EURO 2016 with a beautiful header against WALES, LIONEL MESSI was facing a fine of €1.7 million (and a suspended prison sentence) after being convicted of tax fraud in SPAIN... DWYANE WADE taking his talents out of SOUTH BEACH... BILL SIMMONS on the mainstreaming of UFC... RIP LOU FONTINATO. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Greg Jackson, the greatest trainer in the short history of MMA, holds the careers of dozens of the world's best fighters in his hands and their complex game plans in his head. Over the last two decades, he's guided many of them to championships and glory. But in the wilds of New Mexico, inside a white Land Cruiser he calls the Polar Bear, searching for a ghost town lost to time, Jackson is totally, undeniably lost. | | |
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| From Jerry Jones to Les Snead, the USA Today sports NFL staff selects the biggest game changers in the league. | | |
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| Once a rodeo sideshow, this perilous sport is now a $70-million business with cowboy superstars who take a lifetime’s worth of lickings and keep on kicking. | | |
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| Sports are supposed to be about emotion, and a lot of NBA fans are angry with Kevin Durant's decision to spurn Oklahoma City and join the Warriors. But every excuse people use to be angry with Durant fails to stand up to reason. Does that matter? | | |
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| The Warriors' roster next year may seem unfair, but it's the product of years' worth of league-wide business decisions that could spark a surge in talent for nearly any team. Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > | | |
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| Stop me if you've heard this one before: A woman who's the victim of violence. A man who has the good fortune to be athletically gifted. And a judge who offers him a light sentence and a public expression of sympathetic concern. | | |
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| Twitter is streaming Wimbledon, our first glimpse at live sports on Twitter. | | |
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| Real Madrid maestros indulged in gentle sparring before Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo pulled away and Gareth Bale’s Wales fell to 2-0 defeat in the Euro 2016 semi-fina.l | | |
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| Syracuse hiring an ESPN executive vice president makes sense given the landscape of college sports, but that reveals a lot about the landscape. | | |
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| Japan's Shohei Otani has long been considered by many to be the best pitching prospect in the world. Now he has become his team's go-to DH when he's not on the mound. And he's only 22. | | |
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| The Miami Heat's long and healthy marriage with Dwyane Wade is in a delicate, dangerous place. The tension and frustration is real, and it pushes Wade and the Heat closer than they have ever been to a messy divorce. | | |
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| Former Arizona Cardinals coaching intern Jen Welter looks at why there's still few women coaching in the NFL. | | |
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| LIMOGES, France -- After Mark Cavendish won his second stage in this Tour de France on Monday, his Dimension Data team head sports director, Rolf Aldag, had a question for those who still doubted the British sprinter. | | |
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| Fabrice Martin had just stepped off court at the Montpellier Open in February when his phone began to ping repeatedly. Martin, a French doubles specialist, and his Austrian partner Oliver Marach, had just lost their opening match in three sets to the Croatians Borna Coric and Antonio Sancic. | | |
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| Certainly, the last thing Rio needed on top of worries about crime and infrastructure was another headline about the possible health risks of going to these Games. | | |
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| Just about every knuckleballer turned to the pitch out of desperation. To hold on. To save our careers. I mean, you’re not getting drafted as a knuckleballer. | | |
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| A complete breakdown of the career of Diego Simeone and the wide-ranging managerial influences that helped shaped his successful Cholismo philosophy today. | | |
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| Timofey Mozgov is a journeyman N.B.A. player who averaged 6.3 points a game last season. Last week he agreed to a four-year, $64 million deal from the Los Angeles Lakers. It was a little like a character actor suddenly being paid more than Will Smith for a bit part in a summer blockbuster. | | |
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| There are moments in life that make you feel old. When a teenager addresses you as "sir"; when a favorite TV show appears on Nick at Nite; when your favorite team signs a superstar who's a decade younger than you. In my case, it's when I try to play a game of "Tecmo" online. | | |
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| More than two decades after SLAM was founded, we still feel Michael Jordan’s impact every single day. This will probably be true forever. | | |
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| | Fare thee well, it was a good run (via Alcopop! Records) |
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